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As the pole reached to the top-most bough and down dropped the big, fat, golden, red-cheeked Crawfords, thought went away to the owner of the rod, how he in days gone by planted these little trees, pruned them and nursed them and now we were enjoying the fruits of his labor, while he, the dear boy, was away in the prairie wilds of Kansas.
But the gap was filled; there were two on the top-most step, and La Follette, not only wounded in the thigh but slashed across the ribs, was giving ground. "Be ready, La Mothe," he said. His teeth were clenched and his chest laboured heavily. "Be ready, Blaise." "Ready," answered La Mothe, saving his breath. His heart was very bitter.
I have an idea it wouldn't do you any harm either, to look over what we are doing down at the Lower End." Again she paused. Then, her eyes suddenly darkening, she told him what, after all, lay top-most in her mind. "I have said that if I am given the chance, I can make a go of this. It's up to you, Bud Lee, to help see that I get that chance.
At quarter after six when Miss By-the-Day climbed slowly up the stairs, reaching out delightedly for Babiche, who had been sleeping in the top-most niche of the stair, two tired and aching women flung open the door of the nursery. They were smiling. Neither of them could think of a thing to say, but a curious mingling of odors told their story for them.
Parish Thornton would have given much for a word of counsel to-night from those silent lips, and hardly realizing what impulse prompted him he raised his eyes to the great gray-purple shadow-shape of the tree. Its roots lay in those Revolutionary graves and its top-most plumes of foliage seemed to brush the starry sky, where the spirits of the dead might be having their longer and serener life.
It was a white envelope, sealed and and addressed to him! If you are as clever as I imagine you are, you will find this. My address is No. East Thirty-seventh Street. I shall be pleased to see you if you will call. It was most disconcerting, really. A snow-white pigeon dropped down out of an azure sky and settled on a top-most girder of the great Singer Building.
"They haven't been eaten up by bears or carried off by hawks. Probably they are having so good a time they have forgotten to come back." The sun dropped lower and lower. The wayside shadows thickened. A robin on the top-most branch of a locust sang a solo. "There they are!" cried Miss Castlevaine. The others looked eagerly down the road. The thud of hoofs came out of the hush.
Even the notions and dry-goods, flanking the right wall in stacks and bolts, merge into blur, the outline of a white-sateen and corseted woman's torso surmounting the top-most of the shelves with bold curvature. With spring sunshine even hot against the steel rails of Winchester Road, and awnings drawn against its inroads into the window display, Mrs.
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